Wouldn't a comprssion leak cause that?

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Mark Vermillion
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:31 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Why would my head gasket do this?

What it did was get pushed out... on the head side. It had recently gone
together, ran and held fine for 20 some miles, and then blew out.
Sounded like a cappucino machine.

I had about a 30 hour cure on the copper rtv stuff that was on there.
Torqued the head correctly. I think correctly anyhow... I'm seeing what
is an appears to be an inconsistency in either the Bentley book, or my
torque wrench, i.e Bentley lists final torque as 37 ft lbs or 50 nm, but
on my wrench 37 ft lbs equals more like 55 nm... important? I'd think. I
went up to 37 ft lbs.

I'm going to put another one in, of course, I'd just like to not have to
do it again after that.

Thanks to all,
Mark